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I understand taking joy in not being involved, but haven't you been uninvolved in any package manager drama for many years now? The scars must run very deep.

Rubygems has been hurting for cash since back in the npm days when they floated merging with npm. Being dependent on donations is very precarious and extremely stressful. I really feel for them.

Turns out it's expensive actually running this kind of infra, but basically impossible to actually fund it without becoming dependent on someone else's money :|

do you have any experiences/insights to share, in hindsight, about how these two ecosystems have evolved since? Anything we can/should learn from here?

npm was ultimately unable to make itself sustainable as an independent profit making company, which was the idea we hoped would work. It is now completely dependent on a large corporation, albeit a more benevolent one than Rubygems is.